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Don’t Breathe

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian on 9 JAN 2019Pollution is now the biggest threat to children’s health. So why is it so neglected? Imagine that you could buy, in thousands of shops across the country, canisters containing toxic gas. Imagine that some people walked the streets, squirting this gas into the face of every child they passed. Imagine that it became a craze, so that a child couldn’t walk a metre without receiving a faceful. Imagine that, while a single dose was unlikely to cause serious harm, repeated doses damaged their hearts, lungs and brains, affecting their health, their intelligence and their life chances.https://www.monbiot.com/2019/01/11/dont-breathe/